I don't want to make you say anything you don't want to say, but I'd like you to consider the following analysis.
I'm not a businessman, but I understand a very basic business concept called risk management. This means that a company doesn't usually invest capital in a risky project on which it might lose money.
If I look at your first report, I get the impression that no private company would have been prepared to assume all those risks to develop that pipeline infrastructure. The government did, and I don't see why a company would decide, in the future, to assume all the risks at a cost of $34 billion, knowing that new technologies may come along and make us less dependent on oil over the next 40 years, at the very least.
Is that a plausible analysis, in your opinion?